ex pede Herculem

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  1. A maxim of proportionality: one can extrapolate the size of a thing from the size of a part.
    — When he made this handy list Albert Henry Poleash little thought—Boots, size 9; […] weight, 11st. 81bs. There we have the man: Ex pede Herculem, as the motto has it—only in this case of course the hat and gloves are more useful.

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Latin [Term?] (literally “from his foot, [we can measure] Hercules”)
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